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On 4/12/2021 at 6:45 AM, paul929207 said:

Breakfast in Sabatinis is only for full suite passengers. minisuites are  not included.

Nerd here, chiming in:

• Suite: Yes
• Window Suite: Yes
• Mini Suite: No

...we could order dinner every night and have it brought to the suite for all 4 of us when only me and dh are actually in the suite?

1. HI Cassandra!!!
   
2. Yes, absolutely. Other replies about afternoon tea are correct as well. Order for as many as you want to host.
   
3. Just think about what perfect MARKETING it is for Princess to allow Suite passengers to show off their suite as much as possible. You could host tea parties for 12 and breakfasts for 10 and dinners for 8, every day, and they will be more than delighted to enable you!
   

Wow. ..interesting info...now to decide if the extra things that come with the UBD are worth it to pay or if we should just call and order for the 4 of us.

The price of the UBD is exactly the total of the Photography item, the Florist item, the Champagne Split, the cocktail (and something else escaping my mind ATM.) Everything except the (fixed-menu) food. You can add it up. A Maitre d' told me that this is how they price the UBD, the Ultimate Ship's Tour, the Chef's Table and they write off the food/labor as a very effective Marketing expense.

What this means to your decision is, if there's any one item that doesn't thrill you, like getting two portraits and two bouquets, or the chosen food selections for UBD that day, it may be better to order MDR Dinner and stagger ordering dessert. We did an interesting customized UBD-for-5 by combining the UBD with some MDR items - so we could get some Beef Wellington and escargot at our UBD!!

Rick

I'm 50% cautious about the steps and 50% scared of what's on the handrail!

 

Also can we have IC coffee delivered to our room with room service or do we need to get it on our own? (Read: I will have to go out and grab it for my wife)

Learn to enjoy your coffee runs -- the IC coffee is pick-up-at-the-cafe only.

I enjoy a good breakfast discussion!

I just sent them the Suite Amenities list, wherein Luggage Valet is capitalized and

Sorry, no it actually isn't.

• Complimentary luggage valet

It is interesting to note the "Club Class" wording changes to the Suite Perks document. Like rebranding "Mimosa Breakfast" since some ships have it in Crown Grill and some still have it in Sabatini's.

But I don't think the "luggage valet" perk means the $90/bag Luggage Valet doorstep-to-ship delivery service.

More likely they will take your empty bags from your cabin and "park" them until returned to you on Dreaded Packing Night.

Did you call Princess?

Yes, this was a Princess agent. But it's a Saturday, so I will call back on a weekday.

Today they said (after consulting someone) it could be extended if I had a Booking Number. Well, last month when I called to try to extend the FCC I was told the expiry date was "too far in the future" and should call back closer to that date. I happened to have a live Booking Number on that date, but not today.

Princess Rule #3: Call back and ask someone else, right?

I tried today to extend four of our FCCs that will expire next month.

Is this still possible? The agent I had came back to advise me that 2-year-old FCCs will expire if not used on a booking. I could cancel for a refund but could not extend them for any length of time.

How do you find out what Ports and what schedules are set up for the Bon Voyage Experience?

Pick a ship and a date, call Princess at the toll free number and select "Book A Cruise Vacation." Tell the booking agent the ship and dates you are interested in (get these from the Princess website listing of cruises from your port). You may be put on hold a few moments as they confer with the "BVE Desk."

I did two this month :)

Big difference of being on dry land vs at sea on board a floating tub

Vs. steering a 16-story hotel down a narrow channel that may allow only a few feet between your (thousands of) passengers and an oil (or even nastier stuff) tanker passing in the other direction.

That much area for the wind to push on, and that small a margin of safety, makes "blustery" something to respect. I don't know how they manage it with 24 mph winds!

Tux shirts come back clean and pressed, but I always have to take it to the Laundromat and press the creases in the cuffs and wingtip collar. Which is oddly enjoyable though.

So much for ordering any alcohol through room service to enjoy a cocktail on your balcony while you suffer through this delay :(

Those with mini-bar setups or who carried on wine suffer less, or become local heroes...

You know the Casino Manager is tapping her foot, saying "C'mon Captain, we can't open until out of TX waters..." Bars are limited too, no wine but one Red and one White (from the Texas distributors).

Denver storms delayed many passengers. And they have ample time to get to FLL or am I underestimating the distance?

I checked though, they are tied on and did not drop anchor today. ;)

I was asking after the Sabatini's hours as we are not big breakfast eaters (or at least, not before ten or so), but may have to change that. :)

Seriously. Try it once - I find it to be SO worth it!

If what you crave isn't on the menu, ask!

Take advantage of the complimentary specialty coffee bevs from their well-tuned espresso machine.

The PES is the Platinum, Elite, Suite lounge happy hour each evening...

Correct about the nightly PES Lounge event.

AdoraBelle is sailing on the Royal... There's a physical Lounge on that ship and the Regal.

Edit: looked it up. Concierge Lounge.http://www.cruisecritic.com/articles.cfm?ID=169 Can't answer about its coffee though. Some one will advise about that soon.

I booked an aft OS for October on the Royal. ...

--I understand there is some sort of lounge. Is the espresso machine one of the nice ones from whole beans? Or more of a Keurig affair?

 

--we can order off MDR for room service?

Yes! Any meal, any # of guests. Incl. afternoon tea.

--free laundry? Is this self serve or sending out?

Bag it, fill out a slip, write SUITE at the top, hand to Stewart. Pair of socks counts as "1."

It will be charged to your Folio and subtracted from it on a different line.

--Breakfast in Sabatinis? Is that every day?

Except embarkation day.

--priority boarding?

Indeed! It will say so on the Boarding Pass in green border at the top.

--one included speciality dinner?

On the first night. Complimentary for any suite passenger. But the party can be mixed suite and non.

Call "DINE Line" to reserve from your suite! (They answer fast. 6219 if from a generic public phone but it may ring longer ;) )

Follow up question: anyone know Sabatinis breakfast hours? Googled to no avail, will keep trying.

Opening hours vary between sea day and port day. I think they close at 10. Check for specific times on your cruise.

Enjoy!

Could I have info about the tender priority please? Is it just tender when we want or is there a specific time of priority.

 

 

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When you want. The tender priority ticket allows you to proceed to the tender deck (without mustering in a waiting area first) and get in line for tender boats. No, you don't get to go to the head of the line. But you'll likely get on the next boat.

For extra fun, learn the Name of your suite and use that, it might be a cool feeling to drop "I'm in the Montego Bay Suite" as opposed to "Sweetie Seven Three Three"

Being new to Princess I will have the "lowly Blue Card" in a Suite.

 

 

 

Other than the Preferred Boarding Pass, what do we need to carry with us so the helpful P&E passengers don't keep re-directing us when we try to attend a PES event?

 

Smiling at your excellent question. It echoes a little talk I had with DD before we sailed in that Suite with our noob Blue Cards.

The Preferred Boarding Passes (print in color if you can, the top border is GREEN to indicate your boarding priority) are useful in the case you don't get handed a Preferred Boarding Slip. It varies by Port and sometimes by Sailing, whether or not the Slips are used to help identify Preferred Boarding status. Heck, it may vary by check-in agent from what I have seen.

Once on board, the Boarding Pass holds no magic any more. Put Pass and Slip into the scrapbook.

On Board! Yay!

PES "events" include priority tendering (you get tickets in your suite for this, so no worries), the PES evening lounge, the separate line at Passenger Services, and well, Suite Breakfast. Your first visit to Sabatini's (or CG) breakfast the Headwaiter notes your suite number and memorizes your faces. So that leaves only the Lounge and Passenger Services express-line as possibilities for awkward encounters with "aggressively helpful" fellow cruisers. Princess personnel: will not challenge you as long as you advise them of your Suite number. Passengers: packing your patience and sense of humor is the best Pro Tip here, and each situation would be different.

My DD and I are both very confrontation averse but there weren't any BlueCard related flare-ups at all, at least that I remember. I told her to stand her ground, politely, and remember she *is* in the right place unless/until the Princess Crew advises her otherwise.

I did a Bon Voyage Experience last month; I'm Platinum now but the cruise card I got for the BVE was ...blue. Aah nostalgia! [emoji64]

I will be interested to discover what it is that is so amazing [emoji4]

Well, part of it is that the staff is the best of the best. And a great ratio of crew to customers. So every passenger has a different experience but they put focused effort into making it memorable.

On the Crown we were treated to dancing cappuccino and fancy footwork after a waiter learned my DD was attending Flash Mob classes. On the CB there were sly little goat and sheep noises slipped in by a waiter with ventriloquist skills. These are my memories. And I still smile at them :)

I think there's a dedicated barista and a beverage wrangler, in addition to the waitstaff and headwaiter. You're just in the care of a really good team who's happy to have that gig.

Worth leaving the cabin for.

 

 

 

Seems wrong that Uber does not.

Interesting - in Houston they have to have all the licenses and port stickers that taxis and limos do. Seems fair.

The back patio outside Sabatini's.

Carry breakfast there (from HC) and pretend you're in a Suite :)

Get well Soon!

Just booked a family vacation. There will be 4 teens (3 girls and one boy)from 2 families. We tried to figure it every which way. Suites with a boy and girl don't work because sofa bed is a double and king bed can't be divided.

Why do you think a suite's bed is not divisible?